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7 Day Suit: A Portrait of the TracksuitIn partnership with Photoworks and Redeye

Photography collective 7 Day Suit, have focused on a single item of clothing, the tracksuit, and have documented, researched and presented its history, evolution and possible future.

Through these photographic projects, the tracksuit is used as a medium for exploring the identity of its wearers and gives insight to the rise of the tracksuit from its creation to its imagined future.

Jo Booth uses found photography featuring the motif of the tracksuit to look into ideas of class and popular culture. Shiyin Gu and Karen Rangeley imagine the tracksuit 50 years in the future and focus on street and use documentary photography, as well as bespoke tracksuit garments to imagine the outcomes. In a two-part project, Francesca Jones uses archival footage detailing how synthetic materials are created while getting to know the people who are part of the sustainable materials movement. David Hadley and Kevin Percival focus on the tracksuit in its current guise and create portraits and interviews of people in tracksuits while Richard Stout re-presents archival and found imagery with an emphasis on the commodified nature of the tracksuit.

This project has been supported using public funding through Arts Council England and in partnership with Redeye.Collective members: Jo Booth, Shiyin Gu & Karen Rangeley, Francesca Jones, David Hadley & Kevin Percival, Richard Stout